Jonah Goldberg, in the Los Angeles Times, says in this column that a presidential candidate running outside the two major parties might win in 2020. Of course that has always seemed unlikely, but, as he says at the end of the column, the election of someone like President Trump also seemed awfully unlikely, until it happened. Thanks to Gene Berkman for the link.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Husted v Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, 16-980, later this year, or possibly early next year. All the briefs should be completely filed by September 15, 2017, and then the Court will set a hearing date. The issue is the interpretation of the federal law on voter registration. Ohio interprets it to allow it to purge voters from the registration rolls if they haven’t voted in the last two years. But the Sixth Circuit ruled earlier that Ohio’s interpretation is erroneous, and the purge can’t take place except after four years of non-voting.
This academic poll for the Virginia gubernatorial race has these results: Democrat Ralph Northam 42%; Republican Ed Gillespie 37%; Libertarian Cliff Hyra 6%; undecided 13%. Thanks to Political Wire for the link.
On August 7, the New Hampshire Secretary of State said he is only going to send photocopies of completed voter registration forms to the federal advisory commission set up to investigate vote fraud. He will not turn over the state’s computerized list of voters. See this story. Therefore, the plaintiffs have dismissed their lawsuit.
Two New Hampshire legislators have sued Secretary of State William Gardner, to prevent him from sending the list of New Hampshire registered voters to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. See this story. Gardner is a member of that commission. The lawsuit is in State Superior Court.
Most states have refused to submit all the requested information to that federal commission.
